As reported by WABC radio NY this morning:
Apparently some fire stations in Jersey and elsewhere are training volunteers for two-week stints in affected areas. I would think at this stage it would mainly demo and clean up.
So for all you who can ... it's a hands-on opportunity to help. Will report main contact when found.
Some of our firefighters are down there already and the Yankees gave 1 million (could've given more, but better than nothing).
'morning, all.
Feeling reflective and sober, feel free to shoot down. Getting up out of a comfortable bed with a cup of coffee seems a crime under the current circumstances.
Turned on the tube earlier (4 cst), and altho normally a Fox watcher, I have also looked at a lot of CNN coverage. Their coverage seems to be broader and they have more news from areas other than NOLA. The anchor this morning seemed quite calm and somber.
But nothing beats FR for all around news:
Nautinurse, thanks again for your work on the live Katrina threads;
MFH, in hindsight, we probably all wished your hot thread had read: "Astonishing Exclusive From the *Gulf Coast* [hundreds if not thousands dead]".
It would have avoided a lot of internal squabbles.
Even so, with a corrected title, we would still have wished *that* news to be so wrong. As of this morning, the entire scale is, of course, unknown.
Finally, Jim Rob, thanks to you and the technical staff for keeping the servers up and humming.
FRegards